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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} a Coach's Life by Dean Smith 53 Insightful Quotes by Dean Smith That Will Keep You Focused Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} A Coach's Life by Dean Smith 53 Insightful Quotes By Dean Smith That Will Keep You Focused. Good people are happy when something good happens to someone else. If you treat every situation as a life and death matter, you'll die a lot of times. Basketball is a team game. But that doesn't mean all five players should have the same amount of shots. I'd never get elected if people in North Carolina realized how liberal I am. There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option. I always mean what I say, but I don't always say what I'm thinking. I think the real free person in society is one that's disciplined. It's the one that can choose; that is the free one. Given the fact that we are in a capitalist society, we still do not want to overlook not only what a corporation produces and its profitability but also how it impacts the environment, touches human life and whether it protects or undermines the dignity of the human person. I do believe in praising that which deserves to be praised. The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it. I know a lawyer who'd love to retire and be an assistant coach. I mean, it's fun. The best way to stop the problem of agents would be for the NCAA to come down hard and suspend a school for two years if it finds players with agents on campus. You should never be proud of doing the right thing. You should just do it. I'd like to see the high schools put in a rule that limits recruitable athletes from playing on teams outside a 100-mile radius from their home or school. I just think we shouldn't get into counting coaches' records. I've never been for that. but I know that's just American society. Our teachers at the public school level are the most underpaid for the importance of their job in America. I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well. Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat. As soon as you try to describe a close friendship, it loses something. What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. List of head coaches on Dean Smith’s coaching tree is an impressive one. Sunday morning the University of North Carolina announced that legendary head coach Dean Smith passed away Saturday night at the age of 83. During his time as a head coach Smith won 879 games, two national titles, an Olympic gold medal (1976), 13 ACC titles, 17 ACC regular season titles and helped shepherd many players not only into professional basketball but also in other arenas in life. And to limit discussions about Smith’s impact to basketball would be unfair to him, as he also fought hard for social justice. Charles Scott, who told Smith during his recruitment that he preferred to be called “Charles” as opposed to the commonly used “Charlie,” became the ACC’s first African-American scholarship athlete in the mid-1960’s. Smith also participated in sit-ins, and protests over other issues such as the Vietnam War and the use of the death penalty. To play for a person of Smith’s influence certainly benefitted his players, who went on to enjoy success not only in basketball but in other avenues of life as well. Below are those who went on to become head coaches in basketball, with many others moving on into assistant coaching and administrative roles. And this doesn’t include those, such as Gregg Popovich, who have been impacted by those who played for Smith. While it likely wasn’t a goal of his, Dean Smith ended up planting one of the greatest coaching trees in all of sports. Active head coaches who played/worked for Dean Smith. Larry Brown (SMU) : Brown’s amassed an impressive list of achievements at both the collegiate and professional levels, winning a national title at Kansas in 1988 and an NBA title with the Detroit Pistons in 2004. Currently the head coach at SMU, Brown won 1,327 games as a pro head coach (NBA and ABA) and has won more than 71 percent of his games as a college head coach. Brown played at UNC from 1960-63. Roy Williams (North Carolina) : The UNC alumnus returned home to Chapel Hill in 2003 after taking over for Brown at Kansas in 1988 and returning that program to national prominence. Like his mentor, Williams has two national titles to his credit, and he’s won just over 79 percent of his games as a college head coach. Williams has won two ACC titles and six ACC regular season titles at North Carolina, and like Brown, he’s a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Scott Cherry (High Point) : Cherry was a senior captain on Smith’s second national title team (1993), and as an assistant he was a member of Jim Larrañaga’s staff on the George Mason team that reached the Final Four in 2006. Cherry took over as head coach at High Point in 2009, winning the Big South North Division title in 2013 and 2014 and the overall conference regular- season title in 2014. Butch Estes (Barry University) : Estes made the move to Barry from Palm Beach State College in 2013, and he’s won nearly 500 games during a head coaching career that has spanned just over three decades. Estes played freshman basketball at North Carolina, and he served as a student manager under Smith. Jeff Lebo (East Carolina) : Lebo, who played for Smith from 1985-89, has been a Division I head coach at four different schools (Tennessee Tech, Chattanooga, Auburn and ECU) and has a career record of 294-230. Lebo led his last team at Tennessee Tech (2001-02) to the quarterfinals of the Postseason NIT. King Rice (Monmouth) : Rice recently moved into the head coaching ranks, taking over at Monmouth in 2011. Rice, who played for Smith from 1987-91, served as an assistant at Oregon, Illinois State, Providence and Vanderbilt from 1992-2011. Among his assistants is another former Tar Heel in Brian Reese, who was a teammate of Rice’s at UNC and ultimately won a national title in 1993. Tony Shaver (William & Mary) : Shaver walked onto the North Carolina basketball team in 1972 and was a member of the program for four seasons, with players such as Walter Davis, Phil Ford and Mitch Kupchak among his teammates. In 2003, Shaver made the move from Hampden-Sydney to William & Mary, and he’s led the Tribe to three CAA tournament title game appearances. Former head coaches who played for Smith at North Carolina. Billy Cunningham (Philadelphia 76ers) Matt Doherty (Notre Dame, North Carolina, Florida Atlantic, SMU) Eddie Fogler (Wichita State, Vanderbilt, South Carolina) George Karl (Montana Golden Nuggets (CAB), Cleveland Cavaliers, Golden State Warriors, Albany Patroons (CBA; twice), Real Madrid (twice), Seattle Supersonics, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets) John Kuester (Detroit Pistons) Doug Moe (San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Philadelphia 76ers) Buzz Peterson (Appalachian State (twice), Tulsa, Tennessee, Coastal Carolina, UNCW) Executives/Administrators who played for Smith at North Carolina. A Coach's Life. Legendary University of North Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith tells the full story of his fabled career, and shares the life lessons taught and learned over forty years of unparalleled success as a coach and mentor. For almost forty years, Dean Smith coached the University of North Carolina men's basketball program with unsurpassed success- on the court and in shaping young men's lives. In his long-awaited memoir, he reflects on the great games, teams, players, strategies, and rivalries that defined his career, and explains the philosophy that guided him. There's a lot more to life than basketball- though some may beg to differ- but there's a lot more to basketball than basketball, and this is a book about basketball filled with wisdom about life. Dean Smith insisted that the fundamentals of good basketball were the fundamentals of character- passion, discipline, focus, selflessness, and responsibility- and he strove to unite his teams in pursuit of those values. To read this book is to understand why Dean Smith changed the lives of the players he coached, from Michael Jordan, who calls him his second father and who never played a single NBA game without wearing a pair of UNC basketball shorts under his uniform, to the last man on the bench of his least talented team. We all wish we had a coach like Dean Smith in our lives, and now we will have that chance. RonSenBasketball. Every coach owns authenticity. Among the best was Carolina Coach Dean Smith, sharing wit and wisdom in A Coach's Life. Smith wrote books that coaches could study, not self-aggrandizing biographies. Today's missive brings excerpts from the chapter entitled "The Carolina Way." "Each year we had the same goals: ) Play together, 2) Play hard, 3) Play smart. unselfish, effort, execution." He hated showboating. "Try to act like you've done this before." One writer labeled Carolina " the IBM of college basketball ." "To make winning an end in and of itself seemed neither realistic nor good teaching." 1) Were we unselfish? 2) Did we play hard on every possession ? 3) Did we execute the basic fundamentals well offensively and defensively? "There was a fourth principle at work in our program : to have fun." "Basketball is a game that is dependent on togetherness." "A demanding teacher is quick to praise action that deserves praise, but will criticize the act, not the person ." "Caring for one another and building relationships should be the most important goal." I didn't remember that he had lost Tom McMillen to Maryland because his parents wouldn't sign his grant-in-aid papers.
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